Heatmiser - Mic City Sons

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian dive into Heatmiser, a band that might be familiar to some as "Elliott Smith's band," and their final album Mic City Sons (1996, Caroline). Bill and Brian discuss picking this album up from the Princeton Record Exchange used section, Elliott Smith's value as a band member, co-songwriter Neil Gust going song for song in quality alongside Elliott, Tony Lash's contributions to the Pacific Northwest sound as a producer, Sam Coomes subtle arrangements on bass and keys, beets, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.4	1996's Mike City Sons by Heatmiser. What we do here every week on the podcast
0:26.1	is take an album of music
0:27.5	and talk about what makes it great.
0:29.6	We try to have the conversation around the music
0:31.5	that fans do, and we culminate it all
0:34.0	in a track-by-track review.
0:36.8	Oh, sounds good, man. New Year?
0:39.2	Same thing that we do every year.
0:42.8	Actually, yeah, because at the end of last year, we had kind of thrown it out to some listeners of,
0:46.6	like, hey, what do you think if maybe we didn't do the track-by-track review in every episode?
0:52.1	And everybody pretty resolutely reached out to us and was like
0:55.4	that seems like a bad idea yes i think the compromise was like we will take fewer you know a couple
1:01.7	of fewer proper episodes just keep the track by track and this week we do not have a guest joining us
1:08.9	we often have guests coming in and giving a bit of their perspective on some albums that maybe Brian and I,
1:15.3	we enjoy, but we're not as familiar with.
1:17.8	So we like to have other people come in and join us as like the fan.
1:21.7	Yeah, provide their own insight too.
1:23.9	Plus, like, you know, do you really always just want to hear the two of us every single
1:27.9	week for now entering our fourth year? Oh, man. Well, I mean, I guess they do tune in every week
1:35.0	to listen to us, but not just us. Yeah. Which is always nice that, you know, people do, like,
1:41.9	hearing us talk. That said, they're going to hear just me and you talk
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